Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 Enterprise
Beta
Microsoft® BizTalk™ Server 2000 Enterprise Edition enables
the development and management of business processes within
and between organizations. Companies can easily build
distributed business processes that integrate applications and
partners, as well as quickly establish reliable, secure
trading relationships with customers and key partners over the
Internet. By supporting important Web technologies such as XML
and SOAP, BizTalk Server 2000 allows an organization to
leverage open standards and specifications in order to
integrate disparate applications independent of operating
system, programming model or programming language.
The BizTalk Server 2000 Beta features the following
enhancements from the Technology Preview:
- NEW! BizTalk Orchestration visual business process
modeling environment, based on Microsoft Visio 2000.
- NEW! BizTalk Orchestration business process execution
engine, based on XLANG.
- Easier to use management and configuration tools,
including many new UI Wizards.
- Support for BizTalk Framework v2.0 Draft Specification
for reliable messaging.
- Additional capabilities in BizTalk Mapper to enable more
complex data transformations
Microsoft® BizTalk
Server™ 2000 Enterprise Edition Beta System Requirements
- An Intel Pentium 300 Processor
- 128 MB of RAM
- A 6GB hard disk
- Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server or Windows® 2000
Advanced Server
- Microsoft® SQL Server™ 7.0 Standard (Service Pack 2 or
later) or Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Standard Edition Beta
2
- Microsoft Visio® 2000 Standard Edition SR1a is required
to run BizTalk Server Application Designer
- Microsoft® Office 2000 Web Components are required for
Document Tracking UI.
If you do not meet the requirements above, order the
BizTalk Server 2000 Beta Kit. This Kit contains the software
that you need to evaluate BizTalk Server.
ORDER the Microsoft®BizTalk Server™ 2000 Beta Kit:
The kit includes:
- Microsoft® BizTalk Server 2000 Enterprise Edition Beta
on CD
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition Beta 2 on CD
- Microsoft Visio 2000 Standard SR1a 120-Day Evaluation
Edition on CD
Microsoft® Commerce Server™ 2000 Hotfix If you
plan to run the beta release of Microsoft Commerce Server 2000
and the beta release of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000
Enterprise Edition on the same computer, you must install the
Commerce Server hotfix. This patch and installation
instructions is available on the Microsoft web site at: http://www.microsoft.com/commerceserver/prodinfo/beta.asp.
Download
the Microsoft® BizTalk™ Server 2000 Enterprise Beta.
BizTalk
Server 2000 Readme This readme contains important,
late-breaking information about this release of BizTalk Server
2000.
Documentation Feedback The BizTalk Server
documentation team would love to hear your feedback on the BTS
2000 documentation. Send your comments to us. You
can also reach this alias by clicking the link at the bottom
of every help topic. Please note that this alias is reserved
for documentation issues and is not appropriate for technical
support questions.
Japanese Version If you would like information
regarding the Japanese version of Microsoft® BizTalk Server™
2000 Enterprise Edition, please visit our Japanese site at http://www.microsoft.com/japan/biztalkserver/beta.
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